Hello All:
This sad news is passed on from SWIP-L.
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date sent: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:31:38 -0500
From: "McAlister, Linda Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: Karen Pilkington
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From: Gillis, Marin
To: 'Society for Women in Philosophy Information and Discussion List'
Sent: 3/13/00 5:29 PM
Subject: Karen Pilkington
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>I'm afraid that I have some bad news for those at U.Calgary,
>Berkeley, Simon Fraser, U.Alberta, and elsewhere who knew Karen
>Pilkington. Karen died at 5 PM this past Friday night, with her
>partner and family around her. She had struggled with leukemia for
>the past seven months, and appeared to be recovering well from a bone
>marrow transplant. Nine days ago the cancer reasserted itself, and
>could not be stopped.
>
>For many who knew her, Karen embodied qualities we strive for in our
>lives as philosophers and teachers of philosophy. She was engaged
>and curious across the breadth of the discipline, passionate and
>lucid in her own projects in epistemology and the history of
>philosophy, and a wonderful interlocutor. She also was a gifted
>teacher, manifesting a love of the discipline that many of her
>students learned to share, and a rigor that they sought to emulate.
>
>Her funeral will be held on Tuesday the 14th at the Parkland Chapel
>in Calgary, Alberta (14540 Parkland Blvd. SE). There will be a
>memorial service at the University of Alberta the following week; if
>you'd like to be part of this service with music or words or some
>other form of remembering, please be in touch with me.
>
>I can't find words for what Karen meant to so many of us, or the
>chasm left by her death.
>
>She and I talked last week about establishing an undergraduate award
>in her name at the University of Alberta, to honor her and the
>immense amount that she gave to her students and colleagues. She
>talked, with self-possession, about the shape that such an award
>might take to reflect her loves and values. Her family has asked
>that those wishing to give something in her memory do so to this Fund
>(in lieu of flowers, etc.) Donations (payable to the University of
>Alberta) can be sent to Karen Pilkington Memorial Fund, Department of
>Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E5.
>
>Please pass this sad news along to those who would want to know.
>
>Thanks.
>
>David
>
>David Kahane
>Department of Philosophy
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, Alberta
>Canada T6G 2E5
>
>Ph: (780) 492 8549
>Fax: (780) 492 9160
>
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dkahane/
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